You Will Be Dead Soon Enough, So!

Try to learn to breathe deeply,

really to taste food when you eat,

and when you sleep, really to sleep,

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might,

and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry,

get good and angry. Try to be alive.

You will be dead soon enough!

~Ernest Hemingway

P.S. My daughter-in-law Caroline, a therapist, had this quote on her Instagram, and I love it! Thanks, Caroline. I went to Cuba to watch Caroline’s dance before Cuban government officials with a theater and dance troupe from his school. I sat in Ernest Hemingway’s favorite bar, and I just stared.